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ANDY WORTHINGTONAFGHANS IN GUANTANAMOGUANTANAMO LAWYERSGUANTANAMO MEDIAHUNGER STRIKES IN GUANTANAMO A cross-post, with my own introduction, of a recent CNN article looking at how US support for the Chinese government’s assertion that the Uyghur prisoners held at Guantánamo were terrorists not only continues to dog the men released from the prison between 2006 and 2013, but has also reinforced the Chinese government’s rationale for its brutal and horrendous “re-education” camps in ANDY WORTHINGTONANDY WORTHINGTON'S TV AND RADIO APPEARANCESBELMARSH, CONTROL ORDERS, DEPORTATION AND EXTRADITION Fundraiser Marking the 9th Anniversary of My Photo-Journalism Project ‘The State of London’. 11.5.21. A fundraiser marking nine years since I first began photographing London’s 120 postcodes by bike for my ongoing, reader-funded photo-journalism project ‘The State of London’, for which I have no institutional backing whatsoever. QUARTERLY FUNDRAISER: SEEKING $2500 (£1800) TO SUPPORT MY Dear friends and supporters, Every three months I ask you, if you can, to make a donation to support my reader-funded work on Guantánamo — telling the stories of the men still held, working to get the prison closed, and remembering key events in its long and shameful history. THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CONTENTIOUS “TRIPLE SUICIDE Yasser al-Zahrani and Ali al-Salami (aka Ali Abdullah Ahmed), two of the three prisoners who died at Guantánamo on the night of June 9, 2006, in what was described by the authorities as a “triple suicide,” an explanation that has been robustly challenged on 36 YEARS SINCE THE BATTLE OF THE BEANFIELD, THE TORIES 36 years ago today, on June 1, 1985, Margaret Thatcher’s para-militarised police force, fresh from suppressing striking miners, turned their attention, via what has become known as the Battle of the Beanfield, to the next “enemy within” — the travellers, environmental activists, festival-goers and anarchists who had been taking to the roads in increasing numbers in response to the THE DANGEROUS AUTHORITARIAN THREAT POSED BY PRITI PATEL TO So the war is on, then — of home secretary Priti Patel versus the people; Priti Patel, the authoritarian bigot, versus anyone who dares to disagree with her about anything; Priti Patel, a woman, and the child of Ugandan-Indian immigrants, who, nevertheless, embodies the worst aspects of an arrogant, intolerant, racist, sexist, planet-despoiling, rights-hating elite British patriarchy. GREAT NEWS FROM GUANTÁNAMO AS THREE “FOREVER PRISONERS In extremely encouraging news from Guantánamo, three men have been approved for release from the prison by Periodic Review Boards, the high-level government review process established under President Obama.. The three men are: 73-year old Pakistani citizen Saifullah Paracha, Guantánamo’s oldest prisoner; Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani, another Pakistani citizen who is 54 years HOW CHINA USES GUANTÁNAMO’S FORMER UYGHUR PRISONERS TO When I posted this on Facebook, I wrote: Here’s my latest article, a cross-post, with my own introduction, of a recent CNN article looking at how US support for the Chinese government’s assertion that the Uyghur prisoners held at Guantanamo were terrorists (members of a largely non-existent terrorist organization, the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement) not only continues to dog the men SEVEN AUTHORS, ALL FORMER GUANTÁNAMO PRISONERS, URGE As the Biden administration settles in, and we await news of its plans for Guantánamo — after defense secretary Gen. Lloyd Austin told the Senate during his confirmation hearing, “I believe it is time for the detention facility at Guantánamo to close its doors” — it’s good to see the need for Guantánamo to be closed being discussed in the New York Review of Books by seven former LEE WOLOSKY, FORMER ENVOY FOR GUANTÁNAMO CLOSURE, CALLS ON When I posted this on Facebook, I wrote: Here’s my latest article, a cross-post, with my own introduction, of a New York Times op-ed calling for the closure of Guantanamo by Lee Wolosky, who was the Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure from 2015-17 under President Obama, and whose words ought to carry weight with the Bidenadministration.
IT’S 35 YEARS SINCE THE BATTLE OF THE BEANFIELD; WHERE DO Today is the 35th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield; actually, a one-sided rout of heartbreaking brutality in a field in Wiltshire, when 1,400 police from six counties and the MoD violently “decommissioned” a convoy of 400 travellers trying to get to Stonehenge to establish what would have been the 12th annual Stonehenge Free Festival, a huge autonomous settlement, numbering tens THE GUANTÁNAMO FILES: THE STORIES OF THE 774 DETAINEES IN by Andy Worthington. The first book to tell the story of every man trapped in Guantánamo. A LIMITED NUMBER OF PAPER COPIES ARE STILLAVAILABLE.
GREAT NEWS FROM GUANTÁNAMO AS THREE “FOREVER PRISONERS When I posted this on Facebook, I wrote: Here’s my latest article, a detailed report about some extremely encouraging news from Guantanamo, as three “forever prisoners,” including Guantanamo’s oldest inmate, Saifullah Paracha, have been approved for release from the prison by Periodic Review Boards, the high-level government review process established under President Obama. FUNDRAISER MARKING THE 9TH ANNIVERSARY OF MY PHOTO Dear friends and supporters of ‘The State of London’, Today marks the ninth anniversary of when I first set out consciously on my bike, armed with a small Canon compact camera, to take photos on a daily basis of the changing face of London throughout the 241 square miles of the capital’s 120 postcodes, and the fourth anniversary of when I began posting a photo a day on ‘The State of VIDEO: I DISCUSS THE RIGHT TO PROTEST, GUANTÁNAMO AND THE ‘Kill the Bill’ and recent police violence in Bristol. Alison and I began by discussing the protests against the police’s treatment of women at the Sarah Everard vigil, and the ‘Kill the Bill’ protests in the days that followed, in which I explained that I hoped that the pressure we can exert on the government to try to prevent the bill being passed will make Priti Patel’s position GUANTANAMO AND US DISTRICT COURTS/APPEALS COURTS Last week there was some good news regarding Guantánamo in the US courts in the long-running case of Abu Wa’el Dhiab, a hunger striker who has spent the last 14 months attempting to get the US courts to stop him being force-fed, and who, in the last US MILITARY CLOSES CAMP 7, GUANTÁNAMO’S “HIGH-VALUE In news from Guantánamo, the US military announced yesterday that it had shut Camp 7, the secretive prison block where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other so-called “high-value detainees” have been held since their arrival at Guantánamo from CIA “black sites” in September 2006, and had moved the prisoners to Camp 5.BARACK OBAMA
Please support my work! Over 60 years ago, in the wake of the horrors of World War II, when people with power and influence were determined to do whatever they could to prevent such barbarity from taking place again, the United Nations was established, the Geneva Conventions were rewritten, and representatives of 17 countries drafted “FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE TRAVELLERS”: PRITI PATEL’S I’ve chosen my headline with care, in response to the news that the home secretary, Priti Patel, has launched a horrible attack on Britain’s travelling community, suggesting that the police should be able to immediately confiscate the vehicle of “anyone whom they suspect to be trespassing on land with the purpose of residing on it”, and announcing her intention to “test the appetite THE GUANTÁNAMO FILES: WEBSITE EXTRAS (1) Chapter 2 of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (Pluto Press, 2007) tells the stories of 86 survivors of a massacre at the Qala-i-Janghi fort (and improvised prison) in northern Afghanistan in November 2001. They were the only survivors out of several hundred foreign Taliban fighters ANDY WORTHINGTONANDY WORTHINGTON'S TV AND RADIO APPEARANCESBELMARSH, CONTROL ORDERS, DEPORTATION AND EXTRADITION Fundraiser Marking the 9th Anniversary of My Photo-Journalism Project ‘The State of London’. 11.5.21. A fundraiser marking nine years since I first began photographing London’s 120 postcodes by bike for my ongoing, reader-funded photo-journalism project ‘The State of London’, for which I have no institutional backing whatsoever. 36 YEARS SINCE THE BATTLE OF THE BEANFIELD, THE TORIES 36 years ago today, on June 1, 1985, Margaret Thatcher’s para-militarised police force, fresh from suppressing striking miners, turned their attention, via what has become known as the Battle of the Beanfield, to the next “enemy within” — the travellers, environmental activists, festival-goers and anarchists who had been taking to the roads in increasing numbers in response to the QUARTERLY FUNDRAISER: SEEKING $2500 (£1800) TO SUPPORT MY Dear friends and supporters, Every three months I ask you, if you can, to make a donation to support my reader-funded work on Guantánamo — telling the stories of the men still held, working to get the prison closed, and remembering key events in its long and shameful history.DUE PROCESS
I wrote the following article (as “The Ongoing Legal Struggles to Secure Justice for the Guantánamo Prisoners Under President Biden”) for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012, on the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, with the US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to POLICE CRIME SENTENCING AND COURTS BILL 36 years ago today, on June 1, 1985, Margaret Thatcher’s para-militarised police force, fresh from suppressing striking miners, turned their attention, via what has become known as the Battle of the Beanfield, to the next “enemy within” — the travellers, environmental activists, festival-goers and anarchists who had been taking to the roads in increasing numbers in response to the THE DANGEROUS AUTHORITARIAN THREAT POSED BY PRITI PATEL TO So the war is on, then — of home secretary Priti Patel versus the people; Priti Patel, the authoritarian bigot, versus anyone who dares to disagree with her about anything; Priti Patel, a woman, and the child of Ugandan-Indian immigrants, who, nevertheless, embodies the worst aspects of an arrogant, intolerant, racist, sexist, planet-despoiling, rights-hating elite British patriarchy. GREAT NEWS FROM GUANTÁNAMO AS THREE “FOREVER PRISONERS In extremely encouraging news from Guantánamo, three men have been approved for release from the prison by Periodic Review Boards, the high-level government review process established under President Obama.. The three men are: 73-year old Pakistani citizen Saifullah Paracha, Guantánamo’s oldest prisoner; Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani, another Pakistani citizen who is 54 years HOW CHINA USES GUANTÁNAMO’S FORMER UYGHUR PRISONERS TO When I posted this on Facebook, I wrote: Here’s my latest article, a cross-post, with my own introduction, of a recent CNN article looking at how US support for the Chinese government’s assertion that the Uyghur prisoners held at Guantanamo were terrorists (members of a largely non-existent terrorist organization, the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement) not only continues to dog the men LEE WOLOSKY, FORMER ENVOY FOR GUANTÁNAMO CLOSURE, CALLS ON When I posted this on Facebook, I wrote: Here’s my latest article, a cross-post, with my own introduction, of a New York Times op-ed calling for the closure of Guantanamo by Lee Wolosky, who was the Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure from 2015-17 under President Obama, and whose words ought to carry weight with the Bidenadministration.
SEVEN AUTHORS, ALL FORMER GUANTÁNAMO PRISONERS, URGE As the Biden administration settles in, and we await news of its plans for Guantánamo — after defense secretary Gen. Lloyd Austin told the Senate during his confirmation hearing, “I believe it is time for the detention facility at Guantánamo to close its doors” — it’s good to see the need for Guantánamo to be closed being discussed in the New York Review of Books by seven former ANDY WORTHINGTONANDY WORTHINGTON'S TV AND RADIO APPEARANCESBELMARSH, CONTROL ORDERS, DEPORTATION AND EXTRADITION Fundraiser Marking the 9th Anniversary of My Photo-Journalism Project ‘The State of London’. 11.5.21. A fundraiser marking nine years since I first began photographing London’s 120 postcodes by bike for my ongoing, reader-funded photo-journalism project ‘The State of London’, for which I have no institutional backing whatsoever. 36 YEARS SINCE THE BATTLE OF THE BEANFIELD, THE TORIES 36 years ago today, on June 1, 1985, Margaret Thatcher’s para-militarised police force, fresh from suppressing striking miners, turned their attention, via what has become known as the Battle of the Beanfield, to the next “enemy within” — the travellers, environmental activists, festival-goers and anarchists who had been taking to the roads in increasing numbers in response to the QUARTERLY FUNDRAISER: SEEKING $2500 (£1800) TO SUPPORT MY Dear friends and supporters, Every three months I ask you, if you can, to make a donation to support my reader-funded work on Guantánamo — telling the stories of the men still held, working to get the prison closed, and remembering key events in its long and shameful history.DUE PROCESS
I wrote the following article (as “The Ongoing Legal Struggles to Secure Justice for the Guantánamo Prisoners Under President Biden”) for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012, on the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, with the US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to POLICE CRIME SENTENCING AND COURTS BILL 36 years ago today, on June 1, 1985, Margaret Thatcher’s para-militarised police force, fresh from suppressing striking miners, turned their attention, via what has become known as the Battle of the Beanfield, to the next “enemy within” — the travellers, environmental activists, festival-goers and anarchists who had been taking to the roads in increasing numbers in response to the THE DANGEROUS AUTHORITARIAN THREAT POSED BY PRITI PATEL TO So the war is on, then — of home secretary Priti Patel versus the people; Priti Patel, the authoritarian bigot, versus anyone who dares to disagree with her about anything; Priti Patel, a woman, and the child of Ugandan-Indian immigrants, who, nevertheless, embodies the worst aspects of an arrogant, intolerant, racist, sexist, planet-despoiling, rights-hating elite British patriarchy. GREAT NEWS FROM GUANTÁNAMO AS THREE “FOREVER PRISONERS In extremely encouraging news from Guantánamo, three men have been approved for release from the prison by Periodic Review Boards, the high-level government review process established under President Obama.. The three men are: 73-year old Pakistani citizen Saifullah Paracha, Guantánamo’s oldest prisoner; Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani, another Pakistani citizen who is 54 years HOW CHINA USES GUANTÁNAMO’S FORMER UYGHUR PRISONERS TO When I posted this on Facebook, I wrote: Here’s my latest article, a cross-post, with my own introduction, of a recent CNN article looking at how US support for the Chinese government’s assertion that the Uyghur prisoners held at Guantanamo were terrorists (members of a largely non-existent terrorist organization, the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement) not only continues to dog the men LEE WOLOSKY, FORMER ENVOY FOR GUANTÁNAMO CLOSURE, CALLS ON When I posted this on Facebook, I wrote: Here’s my latest article, a cross-post, with my own introduction, of a New York Times op-ed calling for the closure of Guantanamo by Lee Wolosky, who was the Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure from 2015-17 under President Obama, and whose words ought to carry weight with the Bidenadministration.
SEVEN AUTHORS, ALL FORMER GUANTÁNAMO PRISONERS, URGE As the Biden administration settles in, and we await news of its plans for Guantánamo — after defense secretary Gen. Lloyd Austin told the Senate during his confirmation hearing, “I believe it is time for the detention facility at Guantánamo to close its doors” — it’s good to see the need for Guantánamo to be closed being discussed in the New York Review of Books by seven former IT’S 35 YEARS SINCE THE BATTLE OF THE BEANFIELD; WHERE DO Today is the 35th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield; actually, a one-sided rout of heartbreaking brutality in a field in Wiltshire, when 1,400 police from six counties and the MoD violently “decommissioned” a convoy of 400 travellers trying to get to Stonehenge to establish what would have been the 12th annual Stonehenge Free Festival, a huge autonomous settlement, numbering tens THE GUANTÁNAMO FILES: THE STORIES OF THE 774 DETAINEES IN by Andy Worthington. The first book to tell the story of every man trapped in Guantánamo. A LIMITED NUMBER OF PAPER COPIES ARE STILLAVAILABLE.
POLICE CRIME SENTENCING AND COURTS BILL 36 years ago today, on June 1, 1985, Margaret Thatcher’s para-militarised police force, fresh from suppressing striking miners, turned their attention, via what has become known as the Battle of the Beanfield, to the next “enemy within” — the travellers, environmental activists, festival-goers and anarchists who had been taking to the roads in increasing numbers in response to the GREAT NEWS FROM GUANTÁNAMO AS THREE “FOREVER PRISONERS When I posted this on Facebook, I wrote: Here’s my latest article, a detailed report about some extremely encouraging news from Guantanamo, as three “forever prisoners,” including Guantanamo’s oldest inmate, Saifullah Paracha, have been approved for release from the prison by Periodic Review Boards, the high-level government review process established under President Obama. VIDEO: I DISCUSS THE RIGHT TO PROTEST, GUANTÁNAMO AND THE ‘Kill the Bill’ and recent police violence in Bristol. Alison and I began by discussing the protests against the police’s treatment of women at the Sarah Everard vigil, and the ‘Kill the Bill’ protests in the days that followed, in which I explained that I hoped that the pressure we can exert on the government to try to prevent the bill being passed will make Priti Patel’s position FUNDRAISER MARKING THE 9TH ANNIVERSARY OF MY PHOTO Dear friends and supporters of ‘The State of London’, Today marks the ninth anniversary of when I first set out consciously on my bike, armed with a small Canon compact camera, to take photos on a daily basis of the changing face of London throughout the 241 square miles of the capital’s 120 postcodes, and the fourth anniversary of when I began posting a photo a day on ‘The State ofBARACK OBAMA
Please support my work! Over 60 years ago, in the wake of the horrors of World War II, when people with power and influence were determined to do whatever they could to prevent such barbarity from taking place again, the United Nations was established, the Geneva Conventions were rewritten, and representatives of 17 countries draftedBARACK OBAMA
Please support my work! In the long-running saga of ascertaining who is held at Guantánamo, and what should happen to them, the Bush administration’s refusal to recognize domestically and internationally accepted norms governing the treatment of prisoners continues to cast a long and baleful shadow over proceedings. OMAR KHADR | ANDY WORTHINGTON It’s been another busy week at Guantánamo. On 4 June, the US administration attempted to hold the first of the reconvened Military Commissions since the farcical ‘trial’ of David Hicks in March, when the Australian Taliban volunteer –- persistently regarded by the administration as one of ‘the worst of the worst’, and one ofonly
“FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE TRAVELLERS”: PRITI PATEL’S I’ve chosen my headline with care, in response to the news that the home secretary, Priti Patel, has launched a horrible attack on Britain’s travelling community, suggesting that the police should be able to immediately confiscate the vehicle of “anyone whom they suspect to be trespassing on land with the purpose of residing on it”, and announcing her intention to “test the appetite ANDY WORTHINGTONAFGHANS IN GUANTANAMOGUANTANAMO LAWYERSGUANTANAMO MEDIAHUNGER STRIKES IN GUANTANAMO A cross-post, with my own introduction, of a New York Times op-ed calling for the closure of Guantánamo by Lee Wolosky, who was the Special Envoy for Guantánamo Closure from 2015-17 under President Obama, and whose words ought to carry weight with the Bidenadministration.
THE DANGEROUS AUTHORITARIAN THREAT POSED BY PRITI PATEL TO So the war is on, then — of home secretary Priti Patel versus the people; Priti Patel, the authoritarian bigot, versus anyone who dares to disagree with her about anything; Priti Patel, a woman, and the child of Ugandan-Indian immigrants, who, nevertheless, embodies the worst aspects of an arrogant, intolerant, racist, sexist, planet-despoiling, rights-hating elite British patriarchy. IT’S 35 YEARS SINCE THE BATTLE OF THE BEANFIELD; WHERE DO Today is the 35th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield; actually, a one-sided rout of heartbreaking brutality in a field in Wiltshire, when 1,400 police from six counties and the MoD violently “decommissioned” a convoy of 400 travellers trying to get to Stonehenge to establish what would have been the 12th annual Stonehenge Free Festival, a huge autonomous settlement, numbering tens US MILITARY CLOSES CAMP 7, GUANTÁNAMO’S “HIGH-VALUE In news from Guantánamo, the US military announced yesterday that it had shut Camp 7, the secretive prison block where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other so-called “high-value detainees” have been held since their arrival at Guantánamo from CIA “black sites” in September 2006, and had moved the prisoners to Camp 5. THE GUANTÁNAMO FILES: THE STORIES OF THE 774 DETAINEES INSEE MORE ON ANDYWORTHINGTON.CO.UK SEVEN AUTHORS, ALL FORMER GUANTÁNAMO PRISONERS, URGE As the Biden administration settles in, and we await news of its plans for Guantánamo — after defense secretary Gen. Lloyd Austin told the Senate during his confirmation hearing, “I believe it is time for the detention facility at Guantánamo to close its doors” — it’s good to see the need for Guantánamo to be closed being discussed in the New York Review of Books by seven former QALA-I-JANGHI MASSACRE On the 13th anniversary of three deaths at Guantánamo, contentiously described by the US authorities as suicides, I revisit that terrible night, remembering the men, and recalling the robust challenges that have been made over the years to the official narrative – that the men died by committing suicide. Children in Guantanamo, Guantanamo “FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE TRAVELLERS”: PRITI PATEL’S I’ve chosen my headline with care, in response to the news that the home secretary, Priti Patel, has launched a horrible attack on Britain’s travelling community, suggesting that the police should be able to immediately confiscate the vehicle of “anyone whom they suspect to be trespassing on land with the purpose of residing on it”, and announcing her intention to “test the appetite HEADS YOU LOSE, TAILS YOU LOSE: THE BETRAYAL OF MOHAMEDOU Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose: The Betrayal of Mohamedou Ould Slahi. 28.9.10. Back in March, when Judge James Robertson of the District Court in Washington D.C. granted the habeas corpus petition of Guantánamo prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi, there was uproar in Congress. For many years, Slahi, a Mauritanian national who had livedin Germany
GUANTÁNAMO’S FORGOTTEN CHILD: THE SAD STORY OF MOHAMMED EL Here are the actual facts of his case as documented in Wikipedia. Commitment On approximately June 13, 2001, the detainee departed Medina, Saudi Arabia, where his family lived and traveled to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and then on to Karachi, Pakistan. ANDY WORTHINGTONAFGHANS IN GUANTANAMOGUANTANAMO LAWYERSGUANTANAMO MEDIAHUNGER STRIKES IN GUANTANAMO A cross-post, with my own introduction, of a New York Times op-ed calling for the closure of Guantánamo by Lee Wolosky, who was the Special Envoy for Guantánamo Closure from 2015-17 under President Obama, and whose words ought to carry weight with the Bidenadministration.
THE DANGEROUS AUTHORITARIAN THREAT POSED BY PRITI PATEL TO So the war is on, then — of home secretary Priti Patel versus the people; Priti Patel, the authoritarian bigot, versus anyone who dares to disagree with her about anything; Priti Patel, a woman, and the child of Ugandan-Indian immigrants, who, nevertheless, embodies the worst aspects of an arrogant, intolerant, racist, sexist, planet-despoiling, rights-hating elite British patriarchy. IT’S 35 YEARS SINCE THE BATTLE OF THE BEANFIELD; WHERE DO Today is the 35th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield; actually, a one-sided rout of heartbreaking brutality in a field in Wiltshire, when 1,400 police from six counties and the MoD violently “decommissioned” a convoy of 400 travellers trying to get to Stonehenge to establish what would have been the 12th annual Stonehenge Free Festival, a huge autonomous settlement, numbering tens US MILITARY CLOSES CAMP 7, GUANTÁNAMO’S “HIGH-VALUE In news from Guantánamo, the US military announced yesterday that it had shut Camp 7, the secretive prison block where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other so-called “high-value detainees” have been held since their arrival at Guantánamo from CIA “black sites” in September 2006, and had moved the prisoners to Camp 5. THE GUANTÁNAMO FILES: THE STORIES OF THE 774 DETAINEES INSEE MORE ON ANDYWORTHINGTON.CO.UK SEVEN AUTHORS, ALL FORMER GUANTÁNAMO PRISONERS, URGE As the Biden administration settles in, and we await news of its plans for Guantánamo — after defense secretary Gen. Lloyd Austin told the Senate during his confirmation hearing, “I believe it is time for the detention facility at Guantánamo to close its doors” — it’s good to see the need for Guantánamo to be closed being discussed in the New York Review of Books by seven former QALA-I-JANGHI MASSACRE On the 13th anniversary of three deaths at Guantánamo, contentiously described by the US authorities as suicides, I revisit that terrible night, remembering the men, and recalling the robust challenges that have been made over the years to the official narrative – that the men died by committing suicide. Children in Guantanamo, Guantanamo “FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE TRAVELLERS”: PRITI PATEL’S I’ve chosen my headline with care, in response to the news that the home secretary, Priti Patel, has launched a horrible attack on Britain’s travelling community, suggesting that the police should be able to immediately confiscate the vehicle of “anyone whom they suspect to be trespassing on land with the purpose of residing on it”, and announcing her intention to “test the appetite HEADS YOU LOSE, TAILS YOU LOSE: THE BETRAYAL OF MOHAMEDOU Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose: The Betrayal of Mohamedou Ould Slahi. 28.9.10. Back in March, when Judge James Robertson of the District Court in Washington D.C. granted the habeas corpus petition of Guantánamo prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi, there was uproar in Congress. For many years, Slahi, a Mauritanian national who had livedin Germany
GUANTÁNAMO’S FORGOTTEN CHILD: THE SAD STORY OF MOHAMMED EL Here are the actual facts of his case as documented in Wikipedia. Commitment On approximately June 13, 2001, the detainee departed Medina, Saudi Arabia, where his family lived and traveled to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and then on to Karachi, Pakistan. IT’S 35 YEARS SINCE THE BATTLE OF THE BEANFIELD; WHERE DO Today is the 35th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield; actually, a one-sided rout of heartbreaking brutality in a field in Wiltshire, when 1,400 police from six counties and the MoD violently “decommissioned” a convoy of 400 travellers trying to get to Stonehenge to establish what would have been the 12th annual Stonehenge Free Festival, a huge autonomous settlement, numbering tens QUARTERLY FUNDRAISER: SEEKING $2500 (£1800) TO SUPPORT MY Dear friends and supporters, Every three months I ask you, if you can, to make a donation to support my reader-funded work on Guantánamo — telling the stories of the men still held, working to get the prison closed, and remembering key events in its long and shameful history. 36 YEARS SINCE THE BATTLE OF THE BEANFIELD, THE TORIES 36 years ago today, on June 1, 1985, Margaret Thatcher’s para-militarised police force, fresh from suppressing striking miners, turned their attention, via what has become known as the Battle of the Beanfield, to the next “enemy within” — the travellers, environmental activists, festival-goers and anarchists who had been taking to the roads in increasing numbers in response to the NHS | ANDY WORTHINGTON Yesterday marked 100 days since the coronavirus (COVID-19, or SARS-CoV-2) was first reported by the Chinese authorities, and, as now seems to be becoming clear, this highly infectious disease, which, in just three months, has reached almost every country on earth, and has so far killed nearly 100,000 people, is changing our lives — and ourworld — forever.
POLICE CRIME SENTENCING AND COURTS BILL 36 years ago today, on June 1, 1985, Margaret Thatcher’s para-militarised police force, fresh from suppressing striking miners, turned their attention, via what has become known as the Battle of the Beanfield, to the next “enemy within” — the travellers, environmental activists, festival-goers and anarchists who had been taking to the roads in increasing numbers in response to theDUE PROCESS
I wrote the following article (as “The Ongoing Legal Struggles to Secure Justice for the Guantánamo Prisoners Under President Biden”) for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012, on the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, with the US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to PERIODIC REVIEW BOARDS As the 19th anniversary of the the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay recedes, and the inauguration of Joe Biden hoves into view, it remains crucial that all of us who oppose the continued existence of Guantánamo continue to discuss the 40 men still held there, the inadequacy of the status of all of them (six approved for release but still held, nine charged or tried in a broken trialBARACK OBAMA
Please support my work! In the long-running saga of ascertaining who is held at Guantánamo, and what should happen to them, the Bush administration’s refusal to recognize domestically and internationally accepted norms governing the treatment of prisoners continues to cast a long and baleful shadow over proceedings. UIGHUR “RE-EDUCATION” CAMPS CNN is to be congratulated for recently publishing a detailed article about one of lingering injustices of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, involving the Uyghurs, a predominantly Turkic-speaking ethnic group from Xinjiang province, in the north west of China, whose cases I have reported on ever since I first began researching and writing about Guantánamo in 2006. OMAR KHADR | ANDY WORTHINGTON It’s been another busy week at Guantánamo. On 4 June, the US administration attempted to hold the first of the reconvened Military Commissions since the farcical ‘trial’ of David Hicks in March, when the Australian Taliban volunteer –- persistently regarded by the administration as one of ‘the worst of the worst’, and one ofonly
ANDY WORTHINGTONAFGHANS IN GUANTANAMOGUANTANAMO LAWYERSGUANTANAMO MEDIAHUNGER STRIKES IN GUANTANAMO A cross-post, with my own introduction, of a New York Times op-ed calling for the closure of Guantánamo by Lee Wolosky, who was the Special Envoy for Guantánamo Closure from 2015-17 under President Obama, and whose words ought to carry weight with the Bidenadministration.
THE DANGEROUS AUTHORITARIAN THREAT POSED BY PRITI PATEL TO So the war is on, then — of home secretary Priti Patel versus the people; Priti Patel, the authoritarian bigot, versus anyone who dares to disagree with her about anything; Priti Patel, a woman, and the child of Ugandan-Indian immigrants, who, nevertheless, embodies the worst aspects of an arrogant, intolerant, racist, sexist, planet-despoiling, rights-hating elite British patriarchy. IT’S 35 YEARS SINCE THE BATTLE OF THE BEANFIELD; WHERE DO Today is the 35th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield; actually, a one-sided rout of heartbreaking brutality in a field in Wiltshire, when 1,400 police from six counties and the MoD violently “decommissioned” a convoy of 400 travellers trying to get to Stonehenge to establish what would have been the 12th annual Stonehenge Free Festival, a huge autonomous settlement, numbering tens US MILITARY CLOSES CAMP 7, GUANTÁNAMO’S “HIGH-VALUE In news from Guantánamo, the US military announced yesterday that it had shut Camp 7, the secretive prison block where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other so-called “high-value detainees” have been held since their arrival at Guantánamo from CIA “black sites” in September 2006, and had moved the prisoners to Camp 5. THE GUANTÁNAMO FILES: THE STORIES OF THE 774 DETAINEES INSEE MORE ON ANDYWORTHINGTON.CO.UK SEVEN AUTHORS, ALL FORMER GUANTÁNAMO PRISONERS, URGE As the Biden administration settles in, and we await news of its plans for Guantánamo — after defense secretary Gen. Lloyd Austin told the Senate during his confirmation hearing, “I believe it is time for the detention facility at Guantánamo to close its doors” — it’s good to see the need for Guantánamo to be closed being discussed in the New York Review of Books by seven former “FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE TRAVELLERS”: PRITI PATEL’S I’ve chosen my headline with care, in response to the news that the home secretary, Priti Patel, has launched a horrible attack on Britain’s travelling community, suggesting that the police should be able to immediately confiscate the vehicle of “anyone whom they suspect to be trespassing on land with the purpose of residing on it”, and announcing her intention to “test the appetite HEADS YOU LOSE, TAILS YOU LOSE: THE BETRAYAL OF MOHAMEDOU Back in March, when Judge James Robertson of the District Court in Washington D.C. granted the habeas corpus petition of Guantánamo prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi, there was uproar in Congress. For many years, Slahi, a Mauritanian national who had lived in Germany and Canada, was touted by the Bush administration as the “highest-value detainee at the facility,” and was cited in the FIRST MAJOR STUDENT PROTEST OF 2011 Last November and December, three student days of action brought tens of thousands of students, schoolchldren, university staff, trade unionists and mobilized members of the general public onto the streets to demonstrate against the Tory-led coalition government’s horrendous plans to axe all funding for arts, humanities and the social sciences, as I explained in my article, Did You Miss This GUANTÁNAMO’S FORGOTTEN CHILD: THE SAD STORY OF MOHAMMED EL Here are the actual facts of his case as documented in Wikipedia. Commitment On approximately June 13, 2001, the detainee departed Medina, Saudi Arabia, where his family lived and traveled to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and then on to Karachi, Pakistan. ANDY WORTHINGTONAFGHANS IN GUANTANAMOGUANTANAMO LAWYERSGUANTANAMO MEDIAHUNGER STRIKES IN GUANTANAMO A cross-post, with my own introduction, of a New York Times op-ed calling for the closure of Guantánamo by Lee Wolosky, who was the Special Envoy for Guantánamo Closure from 2015-17 under President Obama, and whose words ought to carry weight with the Bidenadministration.
THE DANGEROUS AUTHORITARIAN THREAT POSED BY PRITI PATEL TO So the war is on, then — of home secretary Priti Patel versus the people; Priti Patel, the authoritarian bigot, versus anyone who dares to disagree with her about anything; Priti Patel, a woman, and the child of Ugandan-Indian immigrants, who, nevertheless, embodies the worst aspects of an arrogant, intolerant, racist, sexist, planet-despoiling, rights-hating elite British patriarchy. IT’S 35 YEARS SINCE THE BATTLE OF THE BEANFIELD; WHERE DO Today is the 35th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield; actually, a one-sided rout of heartbreaking brutality in a field in Wiltshire, when 1,400 police from six counties and the MoD violently “decommissioned” a convoy of 400 travellers trying to get to Stonehenge to establish what would have been the 12th annual Stonehenge Free Festival, a huge autonomous settlement, numbering tens US MILITARY CLOSES CAMP 7, GUANTÁNAMO’S “HIGH-VALUE In news from Guantánamo, the US military announced yesterday that it had shut Camp 7, the secretive prison block where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other so-called “high-value detainees” have been held since their arrival at Guantánamo from CIA “black sites” in September 2006, and had moved the prisoners to Camp 5. THE GUANTÁNAMO FILES: THE STORIES OF THE 774 DETAINEES INSEE MORE ON ANDYWORTHINGTON.CO.UK SEVEN AUTHORS, ALL FORMER GUANTÁNAMO PRISONERS, URGE As the Biden administration settles in, and we await news of its plans for Guantánamo — after defense secretary Gen. Lloyd Austin told the Senate during his confirmation hearing, “I believe it is time for the detention facility at Guantánamo to close its doors” — it’s good to see the need for Guantánamo to be closed being discussed in the New York Review of Books by seven former “FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE TRAVELLERS”: PRITI PATEL’S I’ve chosen my headline with care, in response to the news that the home secretary, Priti Patel, has launched a horrible attack on Britain’s travelling community, suggesting that the police should be able to immediately confiscate the vehicle of “anyone whom they suspect to be trespassing on land with the purpose of residing on it”, and announcing her intention to “test the appetite HEADS YOU LOSE, TAILS YOU LOSE: THE BETRAYAL OF MOHAMEDOU Back in March, when Judge James Robertson of the District Court in Washington D.C. granted the habeas corpus petition of Guantánamo prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi, there was uproar in Congress. For many years, Slahi, a Mauritanian national who had lived in Germany and Canada, was touted by the Bush administration as the “highest-value detainee at the facility,” and was cited in the FIRST MAJOR STUDENT PROTEST OF 2011 Last November and December, three student days of action brought tens of thousands of students, schoolchldren, university staff, trade unionists and mobilized members of the general public onto the streets to demonstrate against the Tory-led coalition government’s horrendous plans to axe all funding for arts, humanities and the social sciences, as I explained in my article, Did You Miss This GUANTÁNAMO’S FORGOTTEN CHILD: THE SAD STORY OF MOHAMMED EL Here are the actual facts of his case as documented in Wikipedia. Commitment On approximately June 13, 2001, the detainee departed Medina, Saudi Arabia, where his family lived and traveled to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and then on to Karachi, Pakistan. IT’S 35 YEARS SINCE THE BATTLE OF THE BEANFIELD; WHERE DO Today is the 35th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield; actually, a one-sided rout of heartbreaking brutality in a field in Wiltshire, when 1,400 police from six counties and the MoD violently “decommissioned” a convoy of 400 travellers trying to get to Stonehenge to establish what would have been the 12th annual Stonehenge Free Festival, a huge autonomous settlement, numbering tens FIGHTING GUANTÁNAMO IN THE COURTS UNDER PRESIDENT BIDEN I wrote the following article (as “The Ongoing Legal Struggles to Secure Justice for the Guantánamo Prisoners Under President Biden”) for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012, on the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, with the US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to NHS | ANDY WORTHINGTON Yesterday marked 100 days since the coronavirus (COVID-19, or SARS-CoV-2) was first reported by the Chinese authorities, and, as now seems to be becoming clear, this highly infectious disease, which, in just three months, has reached almost every country on earth, and has so far killed nearly 100,000 people, is changing our lives — and ourworld — forever.
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I wrote the following article (as “The Ongoing Legal Struggles to Secure Justice for the Guantánamo Prisoners Under President Biden”) for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012, on the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, with the US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to UIGHUR “RE-EDUCATION” CAMPS CNN is to be congratulated for recently publishing a detailed article about one of lingering injustices of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, involving the Uyghurs, a predominantly Turkic-speaking ethnic group from Xinjiang province, in the north west of China, whose cases I have reported on ever since I first began researching and writing about Guantánamo in 2006. PERIODIC REVIEW BOARDS As the 19th anniversary of the the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay recedes, and the inauguration of Joe Biden hoves into view, it remains crucial that all of us who oppose the continued existence of Guantánamo continue to discuss the 40 men still held there, the inadequacy of the status of all of them (six approved for release but still held, nine charged or tried in a broken trialTHE FOUR FATHERS
A week last Sunday, February 21, I was delighted to take part in a panel discussion about Guantánamo with former prisoner Mansoor Adayfi, a talented, Yemeni-born author, who was resettled in Serbia in 2016 (and whose memoir, “Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantánamo,” will be published this August), and James Yee, the former Muslim chaplain at Guantánamo, who, for two monthsBRITISH PRISONERS
The Mail on Sunday yesterday featured the first interview conducted by Shaker Aamer since his release from Guantánamo six weeks ago, and below, following my first article yesterday, are excerpts dealing with his 13 years and eight months in Guantánamo — over 5,000 days — and his adjustment to life since his release: the changes in the world, and, in particular, getting to know his familyUK AUSTERITY
Welcome to Party in the Park 2018, in Fordham Park, New Cross.No fences, no huge metal walls, no entrance fee, no security checks — and no trouble. This was the community in solidarity, proving triumphantly that an open festival is infinitely preferable to the securitised fortresses that play such a divisive role in so many of London’s parks these days (see the big money festivals that HEADS YOU LOSE, TAILS YOU LOSE: THE BETRAYAL OF MOHAMEDOU Back in March, when Judge James Robertson of the District Court in Washington D.C. granted the habeas corpus petition of Guantánamo prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi, there was uproar in Congress. For many years, Slahi, a Mauritanian national who had lived in Germany and Canada, was touted by the Bush administration as the “highest-value detainee at the facility,” and was cited in the* Next Page »
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On the 9th anniversary of the release, by WikiLeaks, of classified military files relating to the Guantánamo prisoners, on which I worked as a media partner, I recall their significance, exposing a system of alleged “evidence” that is actually based primarily on torture, abuse and bribery, and I call, again, for Julian Assange’s proposed extradition from the UK to the US, to face espionage charges for being a publisher, to be stopped. * Posted in Belmarsh, control orders, deportation and extradition,
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THE FOUR FATHERS RELEASE NEW ECO-ANTHEM, ‘THIS TIME WE WIN’, RECORDED WITH CHARLIE HART24.4.20
Promoting the release of ‘This Time We Win’, the new single by The Four Fathers, which I wrote last year, inspired by Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion, and which we recorded in December with Charlie Hart, who also plays Wurlitzer piano on it. Ironically, the arrival of the coronavirus has led suddenly to seriously reduced emissions, although our leaders are desperate to restore “business as usual” as soon as they can, a delusional position that we hope as many people as possible will resist. * Posted in Environmental crisis,
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ASADULLAH HAROON GUL, A “NO-VALUE DETAINEE,” AND ONE OF THE LAST TWO AFGHANS IN GUANTÁNAMO, ASKS TO BE FREED22.4.20
A cross-post, with my own introduction, of an article in the Afghan media by Asadullah Haroon Gul, one of the last two Afghans in Guantánamo, looking at the cases of other Afghans mistakenly held, and urging his government to call for his release. * Posted in Afghans in Guantanamo,
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IN THE MIDST OF THE CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN, ENVIRONMENTAL LESSONS FROM EXTINCTION REBELLION, ONE YEAR ON19.4.20
One year ago, Extinction Rebellion activists (myself included) occupied several sites in central London, bringing traffic to a halt, in an environmental precursor to what the collapse of “business as usual” looks like under the coronavirus lockdown. How can we make sure that, as the crisis passes, we don’t simply return to the suicidally irresponsible culture that existed until just a month ago, which was speeding us towards environmental destruction. * Posted in Coronavirus,
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THE CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN, HIDDEN SUFFERING, AND DELUSIONS OF A ROSYFUTURE
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In my latest article looking at the drastically changed coronavirus world, I flag up the dangers of the massive shift from employment to unemployment, call for rents to be written off for the duration of the crisis, and refer to a study in the journal Science to demonstrate that we need to be thinking about living with the coronavirus for years, and not just a few more months of lockdown. * Posted in Coronavirus,
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HEALTH NOT WEALTH: THE WORLD-CHANGING LESSONS OF THE CORONAVIRUS9.4.20
100 days since the existence of the coronavirus was first announced to the world, I look at some of the many ways in which it has changed life forever – primarily by establishing that our societies’ obsession with corporate profits above all else has now been revealed as empty and worthless, when what truly matters is our health, and those who look after us. I also look at some of the many ways in which our economies, and our economic priorities, will need to change. * Posted in Coronavirus,
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A CORONAVIRUS LAMENT BY GUANTÁNAMO PRISONER ASADULLAH HAROON GUL5.4.20
Following the news that a sailor stationed at Guantánamo has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, and is in isolation, here’s a cross-post, with my own introduction, of reflections on the news by Asadullah Haroon Gul, an Afghan “forever prisoner,” who is still held despite there being no compelling reason for his ongoing imprisonment, and who fears for the health of more vulnerable prisoners, like Saifullah Paracha, Guantánamo’s oldest prisoner, who has had a number of heart attacks. * Posted in Afghans in Guantanamo,
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THE CORONAVIRUS AND GUANTÁNAMO’S EXTRAORDINARILY VULNERABLE PRISONPOPULATION
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As the coronavirus spreads around the globe with alarming speed, there are fears for the prisoners held at Guantánamo, especially after a US sailor tested positive for the virus last week. Along with my own thoughts, I cross-post an article published on Just Security by Scott Roehm, the Washington Director of the Center for Victims of Torture, pointing out that a number of the prisoners have serious underlying health problems, and calling for a number of appropriate responses from the Trump administration, beginning with letting the prisoners and their lawyers know what policies are in place to deal with the virus, and also including a call for Congress to allow prisoners to be transferred to the US mainland if they need urgent medical care. * Posted in Coronavirus, Guantanamo
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IMAGINING A POST-CORONAVIRUS WORLD: ENDING RAVENOUS CAPITALISM AND OUR CONSUMER-DRIVEN PROMISCUITY28.3.20
My latest thoughts on the coronavirus crisis, looking specifically at how it must change the way we operate forever – not only via the extinction of the cruise ship industry and the acceptance of a much-reduced airline industry, but also through a complete re-evaluation of capitalism and our own appetites. Some of this follows on from the demands of Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion, but the virus has, in an unprecedented manner, thrown almost everything we thought was certain into doubt, presenting unparalleled opportunities for a new future in which we put the needs of the people and the planet before profit. * Posted in Coronavirus,
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UZAIR PARACHA, VICTIM OF TORTURED TERRORISM LIES, IS FREED FROM US JAIL; WHY IS HIS FATHER STILL AT GUANTÁNAMO?24.3.20
Good news for a change, as Uzair Paracha, convicted of terrorism-related charges in 2005, and given a 30-year sentence, has been freed and repatriated to Pakistan. In 2018, the judge who presided over his initial trial ordered a new trial after concluding that allowing the existing conviction to stand would be a “manifest injustice,” a decision based on serious doubts about the veracity of testimony against him that had been provided by prisoners at Guantánamo, previously held in CIA “black sites,” including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Sadly, although Uzair has been freed, his father, Saifullah, held on the basis of similar discredited testimony, is still held at Guantánamo, with no sign of when, if ever, he toowill be freed.
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